Re:The end of the road for petrol stations?
by panda21 on Friday June 11, 2021 @08:21AM
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What if instead of slowly charging at a station you just dropped the battery and loaded a new one? That'd immediately resolve the charge speed issue. If we did that I imagine we'd see the return of something similar to the gas station.
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Re:The end of the road for petrol stations?
by Kaibeezy on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:57AM
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Better Place [2007-13] was a venture-backed international company that developed and sold battery charging and battery switching services for electric cars.
Tesla tried it and scrapped it.
Overall, charging really will not be an issue. Most people will charge at home or work.
And in 2025-2030 there will be plenty of chargers that will push 200-300 km in 15 min on longer trips.
Re:The end of the road for petrol stations?
by clouddrover on Friday June 11, 2021 @09:32AM
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Nio tried it and has now done it two million times:
https://www.nio.com/blog/nio-completes-2000000-battery-swaps
This Nio article brings up a good point I didn't think about. If we had swapping stations like this then people could get the benefit of the latest battery technology (given it fits) without having to take in the vehicle for an upgrade or trade it in all together.